Silly date question

Ok, please bear with, just learning PHP. Anyways, im running win 98, apache, php 4 and mysql. I have a table with a date field (date no null). And I have a form with a text input for the date. When a user brings up the form in the browser, the field is automatically populated with the system date using ' date("Y-m-d") ' which inserts the date into the form field in the yyyy-mm-dd format. However, once the form is submitted and the input is passed to a script for inserting the record. For some reason the date is not being placed into the table, it is just 0000-00-00. What simple aspect am I overlooking? --------------------------------- Larry Hotchkiss